mixmax

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by mixmax 13y ago
From anecdotal evidence I don't think you're right. Every summer I speak to an average of three strangers a week that stroll by the harbour and ask about how to get a space, how to buy a boat, and how they can go about doing it. B
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by mixmax 13y ago
If you are a little handy and know how to work an angle grinder and a circular saw it's really not that expensive. Plus you have something to do in the weekends :-)
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by mixmax 13y ago
This is a good observation. I've put some effort into circumventing the zero-sum things, though I haven't thought about it this way before. I live on a boat that I've paid with cash, and thus own. My living expenses come down
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Anatomy of a Miracle - US Airways Flight 1549 landing in the Hudson River(vanityfair.com)
1 points by mixmax 13y ago|0 comments
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The death of theory?(noahpinionblog.blogspot.jp)
2 points by mixmax 13y ago|0 comments
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by mixmax 13y ago
the irony of a whistleblower trying to escape from the nobel-prize winning president of the United States being nominated for the nobel prize is, well pricelss.
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by mixmax 13y ago
It seems that the JS is checking for firefox and then opening an iframe, which presumably holds some more JS. Anyone know what that might be, and who has compromised freedom host?
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by mixmax 13y ago
The black swan event of terrorism doesn't need to scale, it's a big one-off event carried out by a few dedicated resourceful people. A nuclear bomb over New York city, smallpox distributed in all Western major airports, or simulta
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by mixmax 13y ago
Remember this is Internet time (not to be confused with Swatch Internet time ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time) ) which is a whole different beast to normal time. I clearly remember both my dot-com coac
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by mixmax 13y ago
An explanation for those who've never seen this before: A long long time ago on an Internet far from here a young man had an idea. His idea was simple but genius. He would make a homepage (as they were called back then) with a grid of
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Onion Pi - Make a Raspberry Pi Tor Proxy(adafruit.com)
3 points by mixmax 13y ago|0 comments
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by mixmax 13y ago
If the general attorney has to step up to the podium and assure an American public that a whistleblower won't be killed or tortured you've got a country in dire straits. Especially since it seems that not all Americans believe him
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by mixmax 13y ago
It's already there, developed by the US military no less. It's called Tor. If the installing and usability was improved it might catch on for normal people concerned about their privacy.
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Is the NSA Blinded by Big Data?(medium.com)
25 points by mixmax 13y ago|5 comments
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by mixmax 13y ago
Congratulations to the stack exchange team for getting this going. It's an incredibly good idea, maybe you could patent it?
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by mixmax 13y ago
I just copied the first paragraph from the Wikipedia article, which happpened to be about life expectancy which is often seen as a proxy for quality of healthcare. Fair or not. Here are some other excerpts from the article: - The United St
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by mixmax 13y ago
While this is a great and heartbreaking story that makes me proud to be an active member of HN it's also a symptom of the totally broken US healthcare system. From wikipedia: The United States life expectancy of 78.4 years at birth, up
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by mixmax 13y ago
I think that this line of thinking is part of the problem in the US. The lack of capital punishment in Norway is a feature not a bug, and if you look at the results it's a good feature. Norway has very low crimerates compared to the US
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by mixmax 13y ago
As a scandinavian I totally agree. The US should learn from Norway and the Breivik mass shooting to see how one deals with madmen. Capture them, put them before a judge just like every other criminal and then unceremoniously lock them up.
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by mixmax 13y ago
If the best advice in the US is to avoid the police you've got a very serious problem. It sounds like travel advice from a third-world country.
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by mixmax 13y ago
Their primary income is from the support organisation. It costs 100 Danish kroner a month (roughly $20) and there are around 700 members. So they live on roughly $14.000 a month, or $170.000 a year. Needless to say there is a lot of ingenui
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by mixmax 13y ago
yes - it was hilarious! Rejsekortet is such an embarrasment to Denmark, my only constellation is that I once had sex with the CEO's daughter.
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by mixmax 13y ago
You can of course test subsystems, how they play with each other, I/O, etc. But the main job of actually sending the rocket straight up is not testable. You could build simulations, but they wouldn't help much since there are so m
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by mixmax 13y ago
What this means is that the major obstacles for going into space have been cleared (reliable engine, logistics around sea launch, active guidance) so the next launch will be Heat2x, which has the potential to reach an altitude of 130 km. Sp
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by mixmax 13y ago
It shows that the active guidance works as expected. Active guidance is extremely difficult. The hardware is difficult because you need to design jetvanes that work under extreme pressure, and in a 3000 degree jet exhaust. The software is d
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by mixmax 13y ago
charges of which he is obviously guilty and which are punishable by decades in prison or death. I think it's safe to assume there will be punishment if he is extradicted to the land of the free.
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Copenhagen Suborbitals launching rocket in 20 minutes (livestream)(youtube.com)
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Either there are no terrorists, or they are incredibly incompetent(maximise.dk)
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Pirate Bay co-founder charged with stealing from Danish police databases(cphpost.dk)
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by mixmax 13y ago
Here is a source - http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-so... Note that nuclear is significantly safer than even hydro and solar. I think your fear of uranium mines is overblown, as these numbers are included in the c

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